Building Peace in America

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Building Peace in America is written by Emily Sample and published by Peace and Security in the 21st Century. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1538143798 (ISBN 10) and 9781538143797 (ISBN 13).

Over the last few years, public discourse and a number of events reveal the escalation of a pernicious?us-versus-them? ideology in the U.S., in which calls to restore America?s greatness are increasingly accompanied by language dehumanizing minority groups, including racial, religious and ethnic groups as well as immigrant communities.00The book is motivated by our continued recognition of systems of structural violence and injustice, which are linked to longstanding systems of racism, social marginalization, xenophobia, poverty, and inequality in all forms. These deeply rooted and structural conflicts in the U.S. have no easy solutions, and the destructive nature of today?s conflicts in America threaten to impede efforts to build peace, promote justice, and inspire constructive social change. While conditions vary across the country and for different groups, and protests have generally remained peaceful thus far, the possibility of inter-group violence is not the only concern for the peacebuilding community; the violation of the civil and human rights of vulnerable groups, both minority communities as well as the very poor in general, also present serious threats both to American democracy and core conceptions of justice.